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  • noun Plural form of slinky.

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Examples

  • Photographs by Darcy Hemley Thousands of toys—from vintage slinkies to "Cars" memorabilia—fill shelves lining his office.

    Finding John 2011

  • Harring's opponents have unearthed some of his more noteworthy posts, including one in which he compares liberals to slinkies because they "bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs."

    Pete Harring, Paul LePage Transition Member, Called 'Extremist' The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Should we be mourning in guilt in our bedrooms with comic books under the blankets, or quietly playing with superballs and slinkies in the street?

    Some Random Thoughts 2008

  • An amazing Rube Goldberg contraption that takes advantage of slinkies, magnets, candles, waterwheels, slingshots, and all the other things you want to see in such a video.

    YesButNoButYes: Ever striving for more of Rube Goldberg 2007

  • An amazing Rube Goldberg contraption that takes advantage of slinkies, magnets, candles, waterwheels, slingshots, and all the other things you want to see in such a video....

    YesButNoButYes: March 2007 Archives 2007

  • Liberals are like slinkies ....... they are not good for anything, but they do bring a smile to your face when you lean them forward at the top of a stairs.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • The multi-story, former shoe factory is not really a museum at all, but a fantasy playground for kids, a hallucinatory Discovery Zone with a maze of tunnels to crawl through, a spiral slide dropping three floors, and a five-story jungle gym that incorporates genuine fighter jets, a fire engine and a castle turret -- all connected by 4-foot-wide wrought iron slinkies kids can climb through.

    Madison Record - 2010

  • We were pretty pumped ... until we walked in to see that there was only one single mattress on the floor ... that felt like it was made out of rows of slinkies.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • People are like slinkies, pretty much useless but always brings a smile when ya push them down the stairs.

    Popular in the last 8 hours 2009

  • Also, I totally broke from standard kid party operating procedure and didn't give out a treat bag full of useless crap because seriously, does anyone need anymore plastic whistles or mini yo-yo's or ball-bearing puzzles or tiny bottles of bubbles or themed pencils and erasers or mini-packs of crayons or plastic slinkies floating around in the back seat of their car or in the junk drawer or under their kids 'beds?

    IzzyMom 2009

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